How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
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@rl_dane @infobeautiful @wwwgem @graves501 I want whatever the Danish are smoking.
@alecsargent @rl_dane @infobeautiful @wwwgem @graves501 Ok, so I can explain the Danish. I have a Danish mate and he explained it to me once:
"So let's take 297. That's to hundrede og syvoghalvfems. Two hundred and seven and ninety. But let's take a closer look at the ninety. That the 'halvfems'. This has over a long time been shortened from 'halve af den femte snes', which means half of the fifth snes, which is rather archaic word for 20."
(So the equivalent of "score" in English)
"So, taking half of the fifth snes, with the four preceding being implied as it would be a bit long with that included, and we wouldn't want this to end up getting silly, that gives us the last 10 after the implied 4 times 20."
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@edgeofeurope @infobeautiful I expect that'd be "fourscore and twelve", because "fourscore and a dozen" would sound ridiculous.
Some, however, might prefer "half a gross and twenty" which, in the right circumstances, would be a perfectly acceptable alternative.
So 80+12 or (144/2)+20, depending on your idea of fun.
@wibble
You beat me to it
I was going to say four score and a dozen - 4x20+12 which would be typical of Imperial to mix different measures
or
seven dozen and eight
or (since Imperial LOVES fractions)
seven dozen and two-thirds of a dozen
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@alecsargent @rl_dane @infobeautiful @wwwgem @graves501 Ok, so I can explain the Danish. I have a Danish mate and he explained it to me once:
"So let's take 297. That's to hundrede og syvoghalvfems. Two hundred and seven and ninety. But let's take a closer look at the ninety. That the 'halvfems'. This has over a long time been shortened from 'halve af den femte snes', which means half of the fifth snes, which is rather archaic word for 20."
(So the equivalent of "score" in English)
"So, taking half of the fifth snes, with the four preceding being implied as it would be a bit long with that included, and we wouldn't want this to end up getting silly, that gives us the last 10 after the implied 4 times 20."
@woe2you @alecsargent @rl_dane @infobeautiful @wwwgem
Sounds like a fever dream/simulation the Danish need to wake up from, holy moly
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@infobeautiful
Denmark here: to be fair nobody pronounces the 20 so in reality its more like 2 & (half-5)'s.
We are not completely insane you know
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@wibble
You beat me to itI was going to say four score and a dozen - 4x20+12 which would be typical of Imperial to mix different measures
or
seven dozen and eight
or (since Imperial LOVES fractions)
seven dozen and two-thirds of a dozen
@screwturn @wibble @infobeautiful I was thinking about something along the lines of pre-decimal pound prices.
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@wibble
You beat me to itI was going to say four score and a dozen - 4x20+12 which would be typical of Imperial to mix different measures
or
seven dozen and eight
or (since Imperial LOVES fractions)
seven dozen and two-thirds of a dozen
@screwturn @wibble @edgeofeurope @infobeautiful Four score and a baker's dozen, less one loaf.
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How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
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@infobeautiful flashback to learning French in 1993 - or should I say mille neuf cent quatre-vingt treize?
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@screwturn @wibble @infobeautiful I was thinking about something along the lines of pre-decimal pound prices.
Oh in Imperial it would all change depending on WHAT you were measuring!
This was all just for general numberingFor land distance, it would be in furlongs, miles, chains, rods, yards, inches and fractions thereof
For nautical distance it would be in nautical miles except if it was depth, in which case fathoms
Weight would be in an astonishing number of different measures, and also depend on WHAT was being weighed, and volume would be an insane array -
@infobeautiful
I always knew French numbers were mad, I didn't know Danish were even worse!@cockneylaurie @infobeautiful same here, looked it up, "tooghalvfems" is based on base 20 system... but then thet allow "half" as part of a digit, 2 + 4.5*20 instead of 2+9*10.
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Oh in Imperial it would all change depending on WHAT you were measuring!
This was all just for general numberingFor land distance, it would be in furlongs, miles, chains, rods, yards, inches and fractions thereof
For nautical distance it would be in nautical miles except if it was depth, in which case fathoms
Weight would be in an astonishing number of different measures, and also depend on WHAT was being weighed, and volume would be an insane arrayFor pure money, lets not forget that we have in addition to pounds, shillings, sovereigns, farthings, pennies, ha'penny, thrupence, and so on
They ALL had different units - 20 shillings to a pound, 12 pence to a shilling, four farthings to a penny, ha'penny, was of course half a penny, thrupence was three pennies, sixpence was amazingly six
Now of course a florin was two pounds, a halfcrown was two pounds and sixpence, an a guinea was usually 21 shilling -
How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/
@infobeautiful Danish is ridiculous at this point.
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@rhelune @infobeautiful Yes, belgian are more logical with numbers than french are.
If you order a "demi" (half of a pint) of beer in
you will have 25cl because at some point decided a pint is 50cl.
Meanwhile in
a pint is 1L (100cl) so if you order a "demi" you will have 50cl - half a Litre - which make more sense.
(Or maybe it's just a ruse to get french tourist buy more - that would be funny)@leo_citron @rhelune @infobeautiful a pint (volume unit) is about 0.5l, so yes, french's "pinte" is 0.5l, so a "démi pinte" is 0.25. My impression is that you're confusing the volume unit with the standard beer glass? I can't find the word in German.
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@screwturn @wibble @edgeofeurope @infobeautiful Four score and a baker's dozen, less one loaf.
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@infobeautiful
Denmark here: to be fair nobody pronounces the 20 so in reality its more like 2 & (half-5)'s.
We are not completely insane you knowThat’s worse. You see how that’s worse right.
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@infobeautiful
Denmark here: to be fair nobody pronounces the 20 so in reality its more like 2 & (half-5)'s.
We are not completely insane you know@Primetime @infobeautiful It makes kinda sense coming from Nederlands - 4:30 is `half five', 9:30 is `half ten'. It only feels obscure because of the elision.
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How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/
I told this to my wife when I first learned about it and her response was something along the lines of “Danish should probably consider just starting over.”
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How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/
@infobeautiful is Denmark ok
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For pure money, lets not forget that we have in addition to pounds, shillings, sovereigns, farthings, pennies, ha'penny, thrupence, and so on
They ALL had different units - 20 shillings to a pound, 12 pence to a shilling, four farthings to a penny, ha'penny, was of course half a penny, thrupence was three pennies, sixpence was amazingly six
Now of course a florin was two pounds, a halfcrown was two pounds and sixpence, an a guinea was usually 21 shillingAlso, don't fucking get me started of Reagan keeping the US on Imperial, and how agonizingly stupid Imperial gets with small lengths
Motor brushes are offered in catalogues in inches, half-inches, quarter-inches, decimal fractions of inches, but also in eighths, sixteenths, twenty-fifths, thirty-seconds, sixty-fourths, one-hundred-and-twenty-eighths
On one page in a list of brushes of essentially the same dimensions, there were TWELVE different unit used -
How To Say The Number 92 In Various European Languages
Nice analysis: https://brilliantmaps.com/number-92/
@infobeautiful This makes me nervous that the French have so much nuclear power and the Danes make towering wind turbines.
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@leo_citron @rhelune @infobeautiful a pint (volume unit) is about 0.5l, so yes, french's "pinte" is 0.5l, so a "démi pinte" is 0.25. My impression is that you're confusing the volume unit with the standard beer glass? I can't find the word in German.
